Materials designed to teach disinformation, digital source verification and journalistic fact-checking tools. Peer-to-peer digital media literacy resource where teenagers create and use video fact-checks to learn how to identify misinformation, verify sources, investigate images and videos, and critically evaluate social-media content. It includes free lesson plans designed for approximately one school lesson.
An annual global assessment of democratic development, democratic decline and autocratization. The 2026 report analyses democracy through electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative and egalitarian dimensions and examines global trends, autocratizing/ democratizing countries, freedom of expression, media, civil society, elections and checks and balances.
The 2026 World Press Freedom Index compares press freedom in 180 countries and territories, examining the political, legal, economic, sociocultural and safety conditions in which journalists work. The 2026 edition reports the lowest global average score in the Index’s 25-year history, with 52.2% of countries classified as “difficult” or “very serious.”
An annual global research project by Freedom House assessing internet freedom and digital rights across countries. It examines barriers to access, online censorship and content restrictions, surveillance, privacy, freedom of expression, and the use of digital technologies for civic mobilisation. The 2025 edition covers 72 countries.
A UNESCO handbook providing educators and journalism trainers with a structured approach to understanding and teaching fake news, misinformation, disinformation, information disorder, verification and fact-checking. It contains teaching modules covering topics such as digital/ social-media literacy and verification practices.
“Education for Democracy” (Volume I) is a teacher-support manual developed by the Council of Europe as part of its Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) series. It provides theoretical foundations, practical guidance, teaching approaches, assessment tools and classroom activities for developing democratic citizenship and human-rights competencies. The volume covers democracy, political participation, […]
The “AI Literacy Lessons for Grades 6–12” collection from Common Sense Education is a set of classroom-ready resources designed to help middle- and high-school students understand artificial intelligence and develop the critical-thinking skills needed to use and evaluate AI responsibly. The collection connects AI literacy with digital citizenship, media literacy, ethics, privacy, bias and responsible […]
AI 101 for Educators is a free, self-paced online professional-learning course from Code.org/ CodeAI designed to build foundational AI literacy among teachers and educators. The updated 2026 course consists of five modules of approximately one hour each, covering what AI is, how large language models work, practical uses of AI in teaching, AI literacy in […]
Day of AI is a free, open-source AI literacy initiative developed by MIT RAISE and designed primarily for K–12 education. It provides ready-to-teach curriculum, lesson plans, student activities, assessments, educator resources and professional development. The current curriculum offers a grade-by-grade progression from early primary education through high school, covering how AI works, data, algorithms, bias, […]
The InVID Verification Plugin is a browser-based verification toolkit designed to help users investigate and verify images and videos circulating on social media. It brings together several verification functions, including reverse image search, video keyframe extraction, metadata analysis, contextual analysis, image magnification, forensic filters, advanced social-media searches and video rights information. It was originally developed […]
